We’d like to share our thoughts on the latest trends impacting our clients. In this section, we give you access to the theory behind our work on visitor participation and interactive storytelling.
At Night Kitchen Interactive, we’ve seen a huge increase in museums and cultural institutions looking to develop an online presence for mobile devices. According to a recent survey of American Association of Museums members, an overwhelming majority of institutions believe that a mobile platform is an important strategy for ongoing visitor engagement.
Along with receiving a Silver Muse award from the Media and Technology Committee of the American Association of Museums (AAM) for Monticello’s online community (a tremendous honor in and of itself), Night Kitchen and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) were invited to share insights into the creation, function, and fruitful outcomes of Monticello.org’s social media features at the recent Technology, Interpretation, and Education online conference, sponsored by AAM and LearningTimes.
I had the pleasure of attending last week’s THATCamp, short for The Humanities and Technology Camp, an initiative started by George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media. My fellow campers were a mix of academics, museum professionals, librarians, archivists, students, and other digital humanities practitioners from around the region.
When the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (TJF) selected Night Kitchen Interactive to redesign Monticello’s website, it embraced what Night Kitchen’s president, Matthew Fisher, describes as the “enormous potential for museums to effectively realize their objectives online through a dialogic relationship with their visitors.”
Night Kitchen’s presence at this year’s American Association of Museums conference in Los Angeles was a great success, due in large part to the dynamic panel session, Letting Go: Historical Authority in a User-generated World, led by Matthew Fisher and Bill Adair.
At the AAM 2010 conference, Matthew Fisher will join a panel discussion on “Letting Go? Historical Authority in a User-Generated World”. During this session, panelists will explore the challenges, paradoxes, and opportunities associated with mashing up social media with conventional, authoritative museum narratives.
Lately it seems as though just about everyone is jumping on the Drupal bandwagon: toy manufacturer Mattel, legendary musician Eric Clapton, and even the White House.
In early 2009 we completed a year-long collaboration with the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), producing 32 short films on their collection for their newly-installed interactive Dialogtable and developing its corresponding website.
At the 3rd Annual International Barcode of Life Conference in Mexico City last month, Matthew Fisher presented Connect.BarcodeofLife.net — an online community for DNA barcoding professionals.
HINT: Use the "full" button in the slideshare controls above to view the PowerPoint fullscreen, in order to read the labels describing the site functionality.
The first Tuesday of every month, Philly NetSquared invites one and all to Net Tuesdays, an event promoting dialog and discussion within and beyond the new media community, and a place where "web innovators and social changemakers to socialize, strategize, learn from and inspire one another."
This week Matthew presented on "PhilaPlace for Non-Profits: Promoting your vision and mission online", discussing PhilaPlace, a project on which Night Kitchen is currently collaborating with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
